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Long Preston Beck fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the Long Preston Beck?

Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 11 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 and 2024. These are survey records with dates. They do not establish what is present today, that the water is fishable, or that you have permission to fish it.

River evidence passport

Four signals, kept deliberately separate.

The passport shows identity, survey breadth, evidence freshness and trip constraints without turning unlike facts into an opaque “best river” score.

01 · Identity

Long Preston Beck

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB104027063090 · GB112071065600
Catchments
River Ribble
02 · Survey breadth

11 sites · 38 events

8 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 13 Jun 2024

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
1 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
10 sites

Recorded species

What monitoring has found here

Ordered by how many sites on this water recorded the species. A species not listed has not been recorded by these surveys — which is not the same as being absent.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta11 siteslatest 13 Jun 2024
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar6 siteslatest 13 Jun 2024
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 13 Jun 2024
  4. BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 26 Aug 2003
  5. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 10 Oct 2008
  6. ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 29 Aug 2018
  7. GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 10 Oct 2008
  8. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 26 Aug 2003

Surveyed sites on this water

11 shown, newest survey first

Provenance

Source and licence

  • SourceEnvironment Agency Ecology & Fish Data
  • LicenceOpen Government Licence v3.0
  • Source copy retrieved23 Jul 2026
  • Waterbody nameAs published by the Environment Agency
  • Not assertedCurrent presence, access, permission, fishing quality or safety